How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher
If you’re increasingly tired, prone to Sunday night blues, and your July excitement is replaced by dread, teacher burnout could be why.
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A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
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50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
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7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
Teachers who effectively use technology in the classroom have one thing in common: They care more about learning than the tools that cause it.
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No Student Is Unreachable
Students who are challenging–i.e. victims of disruptive childhoods–do not change overnight. They require time to grow.
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
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7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid
Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?
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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
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8 Principles Of Gamified Learning
Gamified instruction uses the mechanics, engines, and underpinning strategies games use to encourage play to encourage learning.
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The Genius Hour Design Cycle: A Process For Planning
Some projects will clearly take longer than you have available, others are too large in scale or rely on the involvement of too many people.
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10 Resources For A Student-Centered 1:1 Program
Educators know sometimes the best resource for embarking on new initiatives is other educators.
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5 Reasons To Use Digital Portfolios In Your Classroom
Despite progress, many students continue to decorate folders for papers. This isn’t our best thinking around student portfolios.
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Technology Is Now As Much A Part Of Learning As Reading & Writing
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
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Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
